As a manager with 25 years of experience in valve manufacturing, would Green Belt Training or Black Belt Training be recommended for me?

Both Green Belt and Black Belt Training are aimed at helping you improve your business by making you a better problem solver. Many people are good a coming up with solutions to problems, but are not good at actually diagnosing…

Bill Eureka is a Senior Consultant at GoLeanSixSigma.com and has over 40 years of success helping leading organizations achieve their continuous improvement goals. He’s an experienced trainer, mentor and coach with the ability to relate to all levels within an organization. Bill is also a Professor in the School of Business at Davenport University.

Learn what stopped it first. Take the time given to conduct a pilot. Pilots are another way to build ownership from and get feedback from people you haven’t heard from yet. Use the time available to build ownership and momentum.

If they are your peer, unless you want to hold them accountable, there isn’t anything you can really do. Focus on your own learning and development, and when an opportunity arises to say something about skipping steps then seize it.

This is not a sophisticated tool so those levels are up to the user. If you are conducting the assessment with others, you can determine operational definitions together based on the process. Some people like to conduct this assessment with…